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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A bit of partisan service. (search)
he charge, Ames rode by my side. We. got off safe with our booty and prisoners. After daybreak, Colonel Wyndham followed at full speed for twenty miles on our track. All that he did was to go back to camp with a lot of broken down horses. Ames, like the saints, had been tried by fire; he was never doubted afterward. The time had now come for me to take a bolder flight and execute my plan of making a raid on headquarters. It was on the afternoon of March 7th, 1863, that I started from Aldie with 29 men on this expedition. Ames was the only one who knew its object. It was pitch-dark before we got near the cavalry pickets at Chantilly. We passed in between them and Centreville. Here a good point in the game was won, for once inside the Union lines we would be mistaken for their own men. By an accident one-half of my command got separated in the dark from the other, and it was nearly an hour before I could find them. We passed along close by the camp-fires, but the sentinels
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The first day at Gettysburg. (search)
tch Hooker's army. On the 17th he encountered, near Aldie, a portion of Pleasonton's command; a fierce fight es presence would give magnitude Gettysburg from Oak Hill. From a photograph. Oak Hill is a mile north-wOak Hill is a mile north-west of Gettysburg, and the view here is south-east, showing Stevens Hall (named after Thaddeus Stevens), the pommanding knoll, bare on its southern side, called Oak Hill. From this ridge the ground slopes gradually to t is wider, smoother, and lower than the first, and Oak Hill, their intersection, has a clear view of the slopeis disposable squadrons from Gamble's right toward Oak Hill, from which he had afterward to transfer them to tEleventh Corps, to prolong Doubleday's line toward Oak Hill with Schimmelfennig's and Barlow's divisions and tstern slope. Ewell, recognizing the importance of Oak Hill, ordered it to be occupied by Carter's artillery bhree regiments on the Cashtown pike, so as to face Oak Hill. This left an interval between Stone and Cutler,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.53 (search)
y duel took place, and at nightfall each side held substantially its original ground. Both sides claim to have held the Rummel house. The advantage was decidedly with the Federals, who had foiled Stuart's plans. Pickett's charge, III.--(continuation of the picture on P. 378.) from the Gettysburg Cyclorama. Thus the battle of Gettysburg closed as it had opened, with a very creditable cavalry battle. General Lee now abandoned the attempt to dislodge Meade, intrenched a line from Oak Hill to Peach Orchard, started all his impedimenta to the Potomac in advance, and followed with his army on the night of July 4th, via Fairfield. This compelled Meade to take the circuitous routes through the lower passes; and the strategic advantage to Lee and disadvantage to Meade of Gettysburg were made manifest. General Meade has been accused of slowness in the pursuit. The charge is not well founded; he lost no time in commencing, or vigor in pushing, it. As early as the morning of the